Southern California is where dreams come trueāor so Scarlett Gardner thought. When she moved there and opened the Palm Trees and Page Turners bookshop, she thought her boyfriend and business partner would be part of the story. When he leaves her for a better job, Scarlett finds herself struggling to keep her new business afloat. And thatās not the only thing she has to worry aboutāshe discovers something underneath the pier by her bookshop that she didnāt outline for her lifeās story: the dead body of a book-buying customer. After Scarlett gives a statement to the police, she thinks her life can go back to business as usual. But when a lawyer, representing someone named Lorelai Knight, tells Scarlett that she now stands to inherit a small fortune, sheās left with more questions than answers. Before she can make sense of any of it, the police bring her in for questioningāthe body she found was Lorelai Knightāand the evidence they have against Scarlett doesnāt look good. Business is booming as Scarlett returns to Palm Trees and Page Turners, but for all the wrong reasons: curious tourists donāt want books; they want a glimpse of the Bookshop Killer. Who could really be behind all of this? And why frame Scarlett? To clear her name, sheās going to have get creativeāand hope she can remain one page ahead of the killer.